¡Hola! This fourth course will introduce new vocabularies in the areas of dining, fashion, professions and careers and will bring you ever closer to the 500 word threshold for beginning Spanish. The course will also introduce the subjunctive and the future tense so that you can begin to speak about future events, things they desire and pursuing professional goals. This is the final course before you will undertake a project that showcases your mastery of basic Spanish vocabulary and grammar.

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Module 1: Talking About Cafés and Restaurants

This module is all about going out and having fun at cafés and restaurants. You’ll build your Spanish vocabulary in these areas as well as learn useful phrases for ordering and inquiring about food at restaurants. We’ll discuss how to use both formal and informal commands, how to make requests, suggestions, and polite refusals using the subjunctive tense, as well as some useful expressions when going out in public. We’ll also interact with a local Mexican restaurant owner from Davis, CA in the Perspectivas section.

Taught By

Dr. Robert Blake

Transcript

[MUSIC] We have already studied how to make polite requests and suggestions in Spanish by using the following construction. [FOREIGN] Another way to do this is by using two clauses, which means two conjugated verbs, and with the second verb, the requested action in the subjunctive mood. The subjunctive is used to talk about something not yet part of your personal experience. Every action requested, suggested, invited, or refused is, by definition, not part of your personal experience because it hasn't happened yet. So you use the subjunctive to talk about it. The subjunctive forms look very much like the formal command forms, but conjugated in all the persons, all the numbers, using the opposite theme vowel. Again, if you have an -ar verb, you're going to use -e. If you have an -er or an -ir verb, you're going to use -a. So let's look at some verbs. Okay, [FOREIGN], to buy. So the subjunctive forms in all of the first, second, third singular and plural endings would be [FOREIGN]. And for a verb like [FOREIGN], it would be [FOREIGN]. And for a verb like [FOREIGN], it would be [FOREIGN]. For your stem-changing verbs like [FOREIGN], you're going to have almost the same irregularity that you see in the present tense, but using the opposite theme vowels. So for [FOREIGN], you have [FOREIGN]. And for [FOREIGN], you have [FOREIGN]. And for severe, you have [FOREIGN]. Now, you also have those verbs that in the first person of the present tense are completely irregular. And that then becomes not only the command form, but the basis for all of the subjunctive forms. So take a verb like [FOREIGN], right? So then you have [FOREIGN]. A verb like [FOREIGN], you have [FOREIGN]. A verb like [FOREIGN]. A verb like [FOREIGN]. A verb like [FOREIGN]. A verb like [FOREIGN]. A verb like [FOREIGN]. A verb like [FOREIGN].

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